Prof. Russell Poole (RGP)

Russell Poole is Distinguished University Professor, emeritus, in the Department of English at Western Ontario University, Canada. His research centres upon skaldic and other medieval poetry in Scandinavia and the British Isles. His publications include Viking Poems on War and Peace (Toronto, 1991), Old English Wisdom Poetry (Cambridge, 1998), Skaldsagas (Berlin, 2000) and, with Antonina Harbus, VerbalEncounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies for Roberta Frank (Toronto, 2004). He is current Editor-in-Chief of Viking and MedievalScandinavia.